Robert Henry Goldsborough

Birth	4 JAN 1779
Education	1795
Occup	1804		MD State Representative
Occup	1814-1817		US Senator from MD
Org.	1817-1819		US Senate Committee on the District of Columbia, Chairperson
Org.	1818-1819		US Senate Committee on Claims, Chairperson
Election	1819		MD US Senate Election
Occup	1835-1836		US Senator from MD
Death	5 OCT 1836

Robert Henry Goldsborough, brother-in-law by his first marriage to Governor Goldsborough, was one of the most picturesque figures of this notable family. He was the son of Judge Robert Goldsborough and of his wife, Mary Emerson, daughter of Henry Trippe, of Dorchester county, and was born January 4, 1779, at Myrtle Grove, Talbot county. After graduating from St. John's College, Annapolis, his early years were given up largely to social enjoyments and the usual pleasures of country gentlemen of fortune. Later, however, when he entered political life, he proved himself one of the ablest statesmen Maryland has ever produced.

His birth, education, training, all tended toward the crystallization of the principles which the Federalist party stood... Read More